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The Nag and the Crag: click and see what you think
Thread started on 16/11/2007 15:33

Zaria

Zaria

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‘The Nag’ is a website run by antiapathy to ‘nag’ those who sign up to do one environmentally-conscious thing per month: http://www.thenag.net/

This site is self-declaredly ‘lazy-assed’, so really not aimed at Craggers, but please pass the link on to others who don’t yet have the motivation to join a crag.

My sister runs this, and we have very different ideas of approaches to sustainability communcation and public discourse. I’d be interested in Craggers’ opinions of the site and the concept, however. Comments gratefully received.

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I quite like the Nag (is

written on 16/11/2007 15:41

Jamie

Jamie

I quite like the Nag (is Cyndi your sister?) but it should only be a stepping stone – after a while behaviour should have changed enough for no nagging to be needed. There’s a similar site – www.dothegreenthing.com – and I’ve been exchanging emails with one of the guys behind it where I lambast him for innacurate carbon figures. On the subject of laziness, I’ve also been in touch with people from the Idler (http://idler.co.uk/) and there is something to be said for doing less in order to cause less emissions (a recent slow travel project related to the Idler involved two guys exploring the UK in an ultra-efficient milk-float!).

 
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Glad you like it

written on 16/11/2007 16:18

Zaria

Zaria

Hi, no, Briony is my sister; she works with Cyndi. I’ve been meditating a nag-crag continuum, where perhaps those who like the nag could be passed on to the crag, as the more committment-rich version.

The Nag, however, fulfils one function, which crags dont’: it’s part of the movement to make environmentalism and social conscience ‘sexy’, and in that I think it’s successful.

Question to the floor: are Crags, or can Crags ever be ‘sexy’??

Zaria Greenhill

 
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Perhaps rather charming...

written on 16/11/2007 16:29

Jamie

Jamie

... but I don’t know about overtly sexy.

I like to think that in general it is possible to make these things sexy though – the fact that so many people went out and bought the “I’m not a plastic bag” bag shows that there is some degree of social pressure starting to be exerted, even if it is currently slighltly misguided. www.dothegreenthing.com and www.greenvoice.com are certainly trying to follow in similar footsteps.

Initiatives such as www.onzo.co.uk, www.diykyoto.com both seem to filling the gap a bit, as does www.thecarbonaccount.com (we hope!).

The glaring difference between mass appeal single-purchase based decisions is that CRAGging takes committment and a long-term perspective. Whether it’s as simple as making this ‘sexy’ or if a more sincere cultural change is required remains to be seen. Maybe people could fall in love with CRAGs rather than just have a meaningless fling!

 
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